I have a common name and created my email account almost when it was first introduced. This leads to me receiving many emails intended for others who share my name. While most are just irrelevant, some are private or job-related messages.
There’s this individual who has been reaching out to me for some time, trying to persuade me to hand over my email account. Initially, he approached me politely, but his tone has shifted to aggressive recently.
He regularly calls me via voice chat every few days, sending lengthy messages that seem to be generated by artificial intelligence, detailing reasons why I should surrender my account to him.
Just today, I received an email that I suspect is from him, claiming he has accessed my account and will expose my personal information if I do not comply. Should I consult with a lawyer or take some other action?
Contact your email provider right now. Most major providers have procedures for handling harassment and security threats - they can investigate if your account’s actually compromised and potentially take action against the harasser if he’s using their services to threaten you. Document everything, but also change your security settings immediately. Update your password, check recent login activity, and see if any forwarding rules or filters were added without your knowledge. The part about claiming he accessed your account is especially concerning - that’s potential federal crime territory if he actually tried unauthorized access.
yeah, total harassment! don’t give in to that guy, just block him. keep all his messages as proof too. if u feel unsafe or think he really did hack u, change ur passwords ASAP. but he’s probably just trying to scare u into giving up ur email.
This is straight-up extortion and criminal harassment. That threatening email about your personal info is seriously alarming. Document everything - take screenshots, save call logs, the works. Report it to your email provider right away and contact law enforcement. These threats aren’t something to mess around with. Enable two-factor authentication on all your accounts if you haven’t already. I’d also talk to a lawyer in case this escalates further. Yeah, older email addresses can be valuable, but that doesn’t excuse his behavior. What he’s doing is completely unacceptable and probably illegal.
Set up automated monitoring for all this harassment. I dealt with similar stalking and automation saved me tons of time while building a solid case.
Automate capturing every contact attempt, analyze his message patterns, and create timestamped logs. Manual documentation takes forever and you’ll miss things.
I built a workflow monitoring multiple channels, extracting metadata from threats, and generating incident reports with zero manual work. It even caught spoofed emails and traced connection patterns I’d never have found manually.
Automation helped law enforcement understand the harassment scope too. Instead of random screenshots, I had comprehensive data showing escalation patterns and frequency analysis.
For security, automated alerts caught suspicious login attempts and account changes in real time. Way better than daily manual checks.
Systematic harassment needs systematic documentation. Automation handles the tedious stuff so you can focus on staying safe.